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[Dom]

nice and smooth, hows the bootlid?

[Tomf]

What do you mean by hows the boot lid? If you mean is it smooth, then yea it is, if you look back a page or 2 then you will see it

[Dom]

I meant have you had any trouble with it like it falling down and scratching.

[Tomf]

nope, its got the two wires on either side o stop it falling...

[Tomf]

Just brought a Nikki twin choke carb so hopefully that will go nicelly on my 1293 when it finished.

[Jordie]

you will need a bonnet bulge for that mind. Its a down draft carb and will stick out the bonnet

[Tomf]

Yea i think i will. I was either thinking of having a bulge or cutting out part of the bonnet and have the air filter sticking out the top of the bonnet. Im not really sure yet, lol

[backstreetclassics]

if you wana get rid of your alloy dash let me know and your mini looks cool

[Tomf]

the dash isnt alloy sorry. The door cards and center console are but the dash is MDF civered witha fake alloy. sorry

[Tomf]

Well i have finally sorted out all the gauges for my dash so ill hopefully be fitting that either tomorrow or the day after Also i started to make my own custom underseat speaker board, that will hold a pair of 8" speakers and a pair of 6" speakers. you can see it in the pic below but that only has the 8" speakers in, i will be recovering the board in black faux leather




I also picked up a set of wellers at L2B i was told that they were 6x10 but when i got back i measured them and there actually 5x10 so im not all that happy, anyway i got a bit board today so i thought that i would give them a quick recondition. only got round to doing 2 and this is what the two i didnt do look like:




And the two that i have rubbed down and painted look like this:




I think they look alot nicer. Although i dont this i will actually use them as i wanted some 6x10 wellers not 5x10, so once they are done i will put them up for sale i think.

However on a good note, i did pick up a pair of wellers of tomm today that are 6x10, although not in the best condition, i think that with a bit of love ill get them looking nice.



Also on a good not Jordie, has been very very kind and is giving me 1 6x10 weller for the price of postage so that will cover the wheels for my trailer and a spare, and i think that Jammy has got a set that i will prbs take off him.

Edited by Tomf, 24 May 2007 - 08:22 PM.

[Jordie]

Will sort that wheel out at weekend for you. I am off afew days next week, so i will be able to post it etc.

Looking good Tomf. all them dials, good luck with the wiring!

[Tomf]

Yea i think i will need a bit of lick to get all the wiring right lol, by the way are the wellers that you have like the ones in the last pic?

[Jordie]

Yeah. Im pretty sure its 6inch. i will get a pic on sat for you.

[Tomf]

OK great thanks

[Tomf]

Well i have added a load of ICE today. I took my 6 1/2" speakers of the rear shelf and mounted my custom fiberglass rear shelf, this has got molding for 2 6x9 speakers, so i mounted a pair of pioneer speakers in there, i think that the fiberglass shelf is really good because because it means that the speakers are at the right hight and point at your head and not the mini roof lol. When i first got the shelf i thought that it wouldnt be very good because i thought that i wouldn't be able to see out the rear window, but when i fitted it i looked in my rear view mirror and i dont even really notice them being there. The fiberglass also has a raided middle section, that i will eventually be mounting a 3rd break light in to give that extra bit of safety.



Also a few weeks ago i got rid of my checker plate door cards and rear quarter cards, i replaced these with some black faux leather cards, i think that these look better than the checker plate cards, i also fitted some fiberglass door pockets that take my 5 1/2" pioneer speakers, i kept my pioneer speakers that were mounted on the front arch as i wanted to keep as much sound coming to me from up front.



I also finished making my custom under rear seat speaker board, for this i used some 10mm MDF, i then measured out where i wanted my speakers and cut the holes for them, for the shelf i am using 4 speakers, two of the speakers are 8" pioneer speakers, and the other two are the 6 1/2" pioneer speakers that i had on my rear shelf before. once i have cut the holes in the under seat board, i put the speakers in place to make sure that the speaker fit, i then made the gap about 0.5mm winder all the way round, once this was done i got out some faux black leather and covered the under seat board. i then mounted the speakers in place, i thought that this looked mint, but then just to finish it off i mounted a little chrome "MINI" badge that i had in my shed, in the middle of the board. To fit it to the mini i will have to mount it at a slight angle but in theory this should meant that the sound is projected more upward so will wound better. To do this i will weld a plate on each rear bin and screw the board to it.